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Arve

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    Comment #16258967

    Apple's approach goes a fair bit beyond simple servo control (which only tends to work well for truly low-frequency content. While Apple hasn't disclosed much about the particular …

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    Comment #15482115

    Someone pointed out low-pass filters to you, but that's not the entire story. Built-in speakers in phones and laptops generally don't have a naturally extended frequency response. …

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    Comment #3824744

    Agreed. I have used the optical drive on my MBP exactly once, to verify that it worked.

  4. story
    Open source licenses for App Store applications?

    Just so I have this out of the way: I know the GPL isn't compatible with typical App stores, like Apple's. I understand that the LGPL likely isn't either. I also understand that BS…

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    Comment #2216161

    > None of the articles I nominated for deletion had any reliable sources to back them up You didn't look very hard, did you? For instance, the Alice ML homepage lists an entire pag…

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    Comment #1921802

    This feature didn't exist last month -- it was added publicly on november 17th, in other words two days ago.

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    Comment #1921243

    GMail failed in a number of the Opera 11 alpha builds and snapshots because our native implementation of Function.prototype.bind was broken. This was recently fixed.

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    Comment #1808811

    It's also worth pointing out that we recently added a preference for enabling click-to-play for plugins. Open this: opera:config#UserPrefs|EnableOnDemandPlugin url in the browser, …

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    Comment #1386881

    The point here is that the rotation is done by the OS, in software, so the screen is still painting from the physical left-to-right and top-to-bottom. This is something you'll neve…

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    Comment #1386806

    No. If you read the description of the chrome video, you'll see that they turned the LCD upside down to remove a shadow, and used software rotation in Windows to turn the display b…